{"id":13358,"date":"2012-03-15T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13358"},"modified":"2012-03-15T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:46:08","slug":"poor-parents-give-up-custody-of-kids-for-a-better-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13358","title":{"rendered":"Poor Parents Give Up Custody Of Kids For A Better Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tanya McDowell<\/strong>, the homeless Black Connecticut mother who was charged with felony larceny last year after she was caught lying about her home address so that her 6-year-old could attend an elementary school in a good district, was slapped with a 12-year sentence earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Mom, who only wanted her young son to get the best education that she could provide, is also indebted to the state for $6,200.\u00a0 What is the fine for? It is for \u201cstealing\u201d educational services for her child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McDowel<\/strong>l is just one of countless parents who live in impoverished areas across the country, yet still want their children to have a fighting chance at getting an education that is solid.<\/p>\n<p>The inequalities in education among the haves and have-nots has been the subject of many staunch debates throughout the years.\u00a0 <strong>McDowell\u2019s<\/strong> cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre is a clear-cut case that depicts the gaping disparities in both the wealth and quality of education across this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanya McDowell, the homeless Black Connecticut mother who was charged with felony larceny last year after she was caught lying about her home address so that her 6-year-old could attend an elementary school in a good district, was slapped with a 12-year sentence earlier this month. The Mom, who only wanted her young son to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}